Tourists can visit the monastery, including the emperor's apartments.

In the southern half were the more luxurious structures ; that is, the emperor's apartments, both public and private, and religious buildings.

The empire used Isaurians as soldiers, generals and at one point they even formed part of the emperor's personal guard, the Excubitores.

Between 101 and 106, under the new emperor's command, I Adiutrix, along with IV Flavia Felix and XIII Gemina, conquered Dacia and occupied the newly formed province.

In recounting a purported conversation in which the rabbi Judah the Prince, who said the soul ( neshama ) comes into the body when the embryo is already formed, was convinced by Antoninus Pius that it must enter the body at conception, and considered the emperor's view to be supported by, the tractate Sanhedrin of the Talmud mentions two views on the question.

Shangguan formed a conspiracy with Liu Dan the Prince of Yan, the Princess Eyi ( 鄂邑公主 ) ( who, as the emperor's sister, had served as his guardian ), and another important official Sang Hongyang ( 桑弘羊 ) to make false allegations of treason against Huo.

Still expecting the emperor's imminent arrival, in July 1221, the crusaders set off towards Cairo, but they were stopped by the rising Nile, which al-Kamil allowed to flood by breaking the dams along its course.

The money to rescue the King was transferred to Germany by the emperor's ambassadors, but " at the king's peril " ( had it been lost along the way, Richard would have been held responsible ), and finally, on 4 February 1194 Richard was released.

The two men hid among the bushes along the emperor's route over a mountain.

The title followed the emperor's name along with the number of times he was acclaimed as such, for example IMP V (" imperator five times ").

This included the fortification of seaports along the Zhejiang and Fujian coast to deter pirates, a constant nuisance during the Jiajing emperor's reign.

Those who were against Soga's dictatorship included the emperor's brother Karu, the emperor's son, Naka no Ōe-shinno, along with his friend Nakatomi no Kamatari, and his son-in-law Soga no Ishikawamaro ( Iruka's cousin ).

However, the younger Lepidus was probably involved in a conspiracy in 39 A. D., along with the emperor's sisters Agrippina the Younger and Julia Livilla.

The office vanished after the 11th and 12th centuries, along with the themata and the logothesia, although there are traces of a single prōtonotarios functioning as the emperor's chief secretary until the Palaiologan period.

* In the second month of the first year ( 1661 ) of Kangxi, Qing court issued the emperor's decree: The sea shore inhabitants will be ordered to move inland 50 Li ( Chinese: 里 ; translation: mile ), to curb their links with the Taiwan rebels ( Koxinga ).

The prisoners of these sea battles were eventually executed in 1523 for crimes of " robbery in the high seas " and cannibalism, while Tomé Pires was kept prisoner so that he could write letters to the King of Portugal, the Viceroy of Portuguese India, and the Governor of Malacca conveying the new Ming emperor's message that the Portuguese should leave Malacca and restore it to the rightful rule of its deposed king.

The southern sea gate ( the Porta Aenea ) was simpler in shape and dimensions than the other three, and it is thought that it was originally intended either as the emperor's private access to the sea, or as a service entrance for supplies.

Gold and silver bullion from American mines were used by the Spanish Crown to pay for troops in the Netherlands and Italy, to maintain the emperor's forces in Germany and ships at sea, and to satisfy increasing consumer demand at home.

Banzai as a formal ritual was established in the promulgation of the Meiji Constitution in 1889 when university students shouted banzai in front of the emperor's carriage.

Aurangzeb, Shah Jahan's successor, added the Moti Masjid to the emperor's private quarters and constructed barbicans in front of the two main gates, which made the entrance route to the palace more circuitous.

As if she were weighed down with old age and worn out by grief, she walked slowly and when she approached the actual entrance to the sanctuary made two genuflections ; on the third she sank to the floor and taking firm hold of the sacred doors, cried in a loud voice: " Unless my hands are cuff off, I will not leave this holy place except on one condition: that I receive the emperor's cross as guarantee of safety ".

At the emperor's further insistence, and for their own protection they took refuge at the convent of Petrion, where eventually they were joined by Irene Doukaina's mother, Maria of Bulgaria.

The emperor's chief counselors were:

* 810 ( Kōnin 1 ): In Heizei's name, the former emperor's ambitious third wife,, and her brother Nakanari organized an attempted rebellion, but their forces were defeated.

( daughter of 7th emperor Emperor Kōrei and identified as the emperor's aunt on the father's side ) acting as sibyl became possessed by a god, who identified himself as, and said that the land will be pacified if he were to be venerated.

The emperor's forces pushed north as far as the River Tay, but little appears to have been achieved by the invasion, as peace treaties were signed with the Caledonians.

At Constantinople, on one occasion, not a few Manicheans, after strict inquisition, were executed in the emperor's very presence: some by burning, others by drowning.

At the start of Louis's reign, the many tribes – Danes, Obotrites, Slovenes, Bretons, Basques – which inhabited his frontierlands were still in awe of the Frankish emperor's power and dared not stir up any trouble.

Gregory's successors were largely dominated by the Exarch of Ravenna, the Byzantine emperor's representative in Italy.

Only Manchus belonging to the Upper Three Banners, and selected Han Chinese who had passed the highest level of martial exams were qualified to serve as the emperor's personal bodyguards.

* 1176: On May 29, Frederick Barbarossa's forces were defeated in the Battle of Legnano by the Lombard League which resulted in the emperor's acknowledgement of the pope's sovereignty over the Papal States and Alexander acknowledging the emperor's overlordship of the imperial Church.

Philosophers such as Michael of Cesena, Marsilius of Padua and William of Ockham who advocated a form of church / state separation were now protected at the emperor's court in Munich.

Kingdoms — roughly the size of commanderies were ruled exclusively by the emperor's male relatives as semi-autonomous fiefdoms.

The chief eunuch, Zhao Gao, and the prime minister, Li Si, hid the news of his death upon their return until they were able to alter his will to place on the throne the dead emperor's most pliable son, Huhai, who took the name of Qin Er Shi.

They bungled the job and were seized by the emperor's bodyguard.

McGuckin notes that the troops were not there to serve as Nestorius ' bodyguard but to support Candidian in his role as the emperor's representative.

According to this document, the Byzantine emperor's ancestors were not mere peasants as everyone believed but descendants of the Arsacid Dynasty of Armenia.

The imperial courts of the emperor's palace were filled with his entourage of court painters, calligraphers, poets, and storytellers.

However, the emperor's martial abilities were not equal to his father, and his inability to crush the remaining barbarian states allowed Northern Wei to complete the unification of the North, to the detriment of Liu Song.

He ordered Liu Ziye's brother Liu Zishang and sister Liu Chuyu, who were reputed to have participated in the late emperor's sexual immorality and tyrannical governance, to commit suicide.

The native barons greeted Frederick enthusiastically at first, but were wary of the emperor's history of centralization and his desire to impose imperial authority.

In an effort to demonstrate the Byzantine ideal of the emperor's role as the leader of the Christian world, John marched into Muslim Syria at the head of the combined forces of Byzantium and the Crusader states ; yet despite the great vigour with which he pressed the campaign, John's hopes were disappointed by the treachery of his Crusader allies, who deliberately failed to fight against their common Muslim enemies at the crucial moment.

The emperor's chief interests, shaped by Psellos, were in academic pursuits, and he allowed Nikephoritzes to increase both taxation and luxury spending without properly financing the army.